Glimpses 

of a New Age 

BY 

The Reverend J. Edmestone Barnes 

of London, England 

Former Minister of Public Works for the Republic of Liberia, West 
Coast of Africa and President of the Proposed Indus- 
trial Training Institution and Schools 




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How harmonizingly charming ^^rith the idea — ' ' Glimpses of a 
New Age," are the sweet w^ords of "F. E. Weatherly'^ transposed 
into idealistic music b}^ Stephen Adams! 

These men are amongst the brilliant Stars of the Age's firma- 
ment. 

' ' Last night I lay asleeping, 

"There came a dream so fair. I stood in 

''Old Jerusalem, Beside the tempest there. 

''I heard the Children singing, and ever as they sang 

''Me thought the voice of Angels, Prom 

' ' Heav 'n in answer rang ; . Jerusalem ! Jerusalem ! 

"Lift, up your gates and sing, Hosanna in the highest ! 

"Hosanna to your King! 

"And once again the scene was changed 

"New Earth there seem'd to be, I saw the Holy 

' ' City Beside the tideless sea ; The light 

' ' Of God was on its streets, the gates were 

"Open wide. And all who would might enter, 

"And no one was denied. 

"No need of moon or stars by night; or sun to shine by day. 
' ' It was the New J erusalem that would not pass away. 
"Jerusalem! Jerusalem! .. 

"Sing for the night is O'er! Hosanna in the highest, Hosanna 
for evermore ! 

The Author. 



ERRATA ! 

On Page 6th, 16th line :— Should read, "there will neither be rich men," etc. 
Page 9th, 4th paragraph, 3rd line:— Should read, "demagogues," etc. 
Page 10th, 2nd paragraph, 2nd line:— Should read, "phenomenal," etc. 
Page 11th, 5th paragraph, 5th line:— Should read, '^Nefronti," etc. 



INTRODUCTION 



Glimpses of a New Age 

An address delivered by a special request to the Interdenomi- 
national Ministers' Conference Assembled at the ^^Y. M. C. A." 
at Washington, D. C, in the month of March, 1916, by The Revd. 
J. Edmestone Barnes of London, England — Former Minister of 
Public "Works for the Republic of Liberia on the West Coast of 
Africa, and President of the ''Propesd Liberian Industrial Train- 
ing Institution and Schools." 

The length of time usually allowed for a speech on such an 
occasion was three-quarters of an hour ; but, in this special instance, 
it was voted and unanimously agreed to that the ' ' distingished 
speaker," should have more time to deliver his "interesting mes- 
sage," which time (having been granted) w^as taken advantage of, 
and the speech was concluded within an hour and twenty-five 
minutes amidst a thunderingly rapturous applause, accompanied 
by a hearty vote of thanks, and a handsome donation to the Speaker 
— subscribed spontaneously, by everybody present. 

Subsequently, by the earnest solicitations of interested friends, 
the Author was requested to hand over his Manuscript to a Printer 
to have a certain number of copies of Pamphlets struck off so that 
the public might get the benefit of reading the speech. The Author 
readily expressed his profound delight in compliance with the noble 
spirit and desire of his friends — meanwhile cherishing the hope 
that good may be the result of so benevolent an object. 

An addition to the speech of a few important and interesting 
items is made. 



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Glimpses of a New Age 



Mr. President, Brethren and Friends: This Subject — Glimpses 
of a New Age," has occurred to my mind as a suitable topic for my 
discourse with you on this occasion, and I have selected it ; and 
would therefore ask for your patience and kindly attention while 
I proceed to state the case. 

It will be noticed that I am- attempting to present a case dealing 
with a subject coming under the head of Life's Potentialities: In 
view of the evoluntionary activities and responsibilities of the past 
— entailing judgment (discrimination, and punishment) dramatic- 
ally and prophetically portrayed on the great stage of the nations 
of the world. Rev. 21 :14— And the Wall of the City had twelve 
Foundations and on them the twelve names of the twelve Apostles 
of the Lamb." 

The ''Apocalypse," translated, "Revelation" from which the 
subject is gleaned, is a book that stands out signally conspicuous 
as one of the most profound of the Holy writings, or Scriptures, 
termed the Bible. A marvelous fact disclosed to me in the course 
of my unravelment of this most unique Writing or Communication 
is, that it is the most pricely munifence, or precious gift which the 
Anointed Lord Himself has presented, in the name of His Father, 
and of His Spirit, by His Holy Messenger (Angel) unto His 
Spouse — The Church. The Sacred Monograph — "I am Alpha 
and Omega ' ' conspicuously imprinted, on the front and back pages 
of the Writing is, the significant Signature that is indicative of the 
author's Identity, and that which also is intended, to disclose the 
authenticity of his Cognomen. 

It is alleged that, during the time of Christ's ministration among 
the Jews, his speeches to them were always delivered in parables — 
Matt. 13:34, has recorded it thus: "All these things spake Jesus 
unto the multitude in parables, and without a parable spake he not 
unto them." 

Now a parable is a form of speech, or, an expression of a sym- 
bolic and metaphoric character — customary to be spoken by Ori- 
ental Sages — wise men — men of high intellectual attainments. It 
was formerly considered an impertinent burlesque and an unbecom- 
ing thing on the part of an unlearned man — a common person, 
attempting, to express himself in a parable; bacause, the thing or 
art, was altogether inaccessable of his comprehension. A demon- 
stration of the case is illustrated by the controversies that have 
taken place between the Lord Jesus and the Jews. 

The point of supreme interest that demands a special obser- 
vation to enable one to properly appreciate the peculiar character- 
istic of the subject which is being dealt with is this : The Holy 
Writing (comprising this Book) "Revelation;" more than any 



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other passages of the Bible is dressed in metaphorie adornments; 
and it is in these adornments the secrets, termed — "The Mysteries 
of the Kingdom of Heaven," are concealed and thereby constitute 
the Dower presented to the ' ' Lamb 's Bride ' ' — The Church, for her 
unravelment of the same, so as to be able to understand them; 
and to live by them ; which is equivalent to the — ' ' Eating and drink^ 
ing of the Flesh, and Blood of the Lord Jesus" (John 5:53 — 58). 
"And the disciples came and said unto Him, Why speakest thou 
unto them in parables?" He answered and said unto them — "Be- 
cause it is given unto you to know the Mysteries of the Kingdom 
of Heaven, but unto them it is not given. ' ' Matt. 13 :9 — 10. 

Now, in concluding these prefatory remarks to proceed with the 
main features of the topic, you will allow me to take occasion to 
remind the Church — The Ambassador of Christ (people of faith in 
God through Jesus) the Church that arose up out of the dust of 
the ground in which she has slept for upward of 1,260 years, and 
awoke and came forth, at the sound of the "Trumpet" of the 
"Reformation" of the 16th Century, having thrown off the 
shackles and fetters of a "Dark Age." The Spirit word says to 
this church to-day (The Lamb's Bride) "Behold your Bride- 
groom ! " He has appeared ! "Go ye forth to meet him ! " " Have 
you oil in your lamps?" 

Main Features: 

' ' And the Wall of the City had twelve foundations and on them 
the twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb." 

The chosen text with its contexts (in view of what has already 
been stated) is symbolic. It dramatizes and prefigures, or anti- 
cipates graphically, the da^vn of a great Consummation Day — A 
day (the dispensation of time) in which, honor and glory, consola- 
tion and redemption are conferred, on do^^Ti-trodden humanity — ■ 
peoples who have been kept buried in the dust of the earth in pain 
and in anguish throughout the past age. And also the vision of a 
precipitating overthrow of IMighty Chiliarchs for the rewarding 
of those who possess the patience of saints and kept the faith of the 
Anointed One — who are termed the "white robed men of the age" 
(of whom the world was not worthy — such men as Abelard, Luther, 
Payne, Lincoln, Gladstone, Livingstone, Tolstoi, Blyden, Douglass, 
Washington and a host of others) — those that have overcome, "by 
the Blood of the Lamb" — the transmitted work of the Lord Jesus, 
to the Apostles whose life they have most faithfully imitated, and 
by the word of their testimony (the very words of the Revelation) 
through the spirit of which, "they loved not their lives dear, even 
unto death." These in the aggregate, triumphantly constitute, the 
"Twelve Apostolic foundations" upon which the age of true Christ- 
ianity (all that contains Right and Justice) has been constructed 
and consolidated. "The Wall of the City" constitutes, the encir- 
cling dimension of the "New Era," evolving out of the Old, "The 
New Jerusalem coming dowTi from Heaven ; sweeping along with 



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its trail the seeds with germs that possess the best vitality, the ' ' Old 
Age" has to give, as gems, presented; for transmission for the 
intellectual adornment of the New Church — the Kingdom of God 
on earth — ''glimpses" of the approach of which we have conspic- 
uous glimmerings as of lights shining in a dark place. 

My Brethren : ' ' God liveth and ruleth in the Kingdoms of men. ' ' 
As the wall of old Jerusalem (under the Law) was built up by the 
hand — that old constitution of things constructed out of the rubbish 
taken from a burned city ; so surely, is the Almighty — the Great 
and Beneficent Father, silently and mysteriously, evolving His 
Kingdom^ — ''The New Jerusalem," and building it, to-day. Yes — 
quite true. He is building it; but not on the creed or dogmas of 
this or that particular denominational Church ; but partly, on the 
disappointments caused from the narrowness and pusillanimous 
vacillation, of Orthodox-Christendom. — the uncharitably hostile 
spirit of intolerance, bigotry, callous indifference, color prejudice, 
malicious hatred manifested, taught and fostered throughout the 
Christian Age against the poor, down-trodden, unfortunate Ones. 
There is positively very little genuine sympathy to be found in any 
quarter throughout the civilized world for the poor ; when ones takes 
into consideration what is meant by the 'civilized world,' and the 
relationship that exists in it between "rich and poor." And if 
perchance a rich man condescends to give some little charity to the 
poor man — the gift becomes the exception rather than the rule (ac- 
cording to the Scriptural injunction laid down of the manner that 
charities should be distributed) because, of the niggardliness of 
the gift, and of the noisy ostentatious Unchristian spirit, in which 
the thing is trumpeted about. The poor is despised even like as 
it was at the time with the Lord Himself and looked upon as an 
undesirably good-for-nothing person. This unfortunate man of 
sorrows during the ages is considered, to have committed an unpar- 
donable sin or crime against 'human society.' Such is the fabric 
that something so fearfully 'scarlet-colored' upon which we are 
looking rests ; that most disgusting and unmerciful arrangement of 
things termed, ' ' human society ' ' — A state or condition which is dia- 
metrically opposed to all that is "called God." But observe the 
contrast by the words of the Spirit of Christ through the Prophet 
of Old — ' ' The. Lord maketh the poor, and the rich. He bringeth 
low and lifteth up. He raised up the poor out of the dust" . . . . 
"and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill to set him among 
Princes, and to make him inherit the throne of glory ; for the pillars 
of the earth are the Lord's, and He hath set the world upon them." 
(I Saml. 2:7 — 8.) If these words of the Holy Writ (according to 
the quotation made) are, "profitable for doctrine, for reproof, and 
for correction," then, I say the contrast needs absolutely no com- 
ment. The case is pitiously painful, but the poor — like Hiob or 
Job, has to wait patiently upon the Lord in faith : and God will vin- 
dicate him. He shall soon be manifested. 



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Man's Inhumanity to Man: 

Speaking relatively specific upon this phase of the subject; one 
must be pardoned if he is constrained to ask these pertinent ques- 
tions, viz:, Who are we? Are we not all belonging to the same 
family, and culprits in a degree? I think one can truthfully say 
yes. Then are we not all condemned? Yes, logically we are. 
Now if others are deluged — gone down in that unseaworthy barque 
— viz :, callous indifference to humanity, where do we stand ? Are we 
not sailing also in that same idolatrous ship ? Now let us reason to- 
gether : Things that are equal to the same thing are they not equal 
to one another? Tell me then. How do we expect consistently to 
reconcile to ourselves the way of our escape from the surging tem- 
pest upon this momentous sea of violent agitation? I say unto 
you, ''Except we repent we shall all likewise perish." We may 
steer along upon the stormy waters clinging to our broken rudder 
(winking hypocritically and complacently at truth) having our con- 
sciences seared (as it were) with hot irons; but brethren, the New 
Church of Christ is being built up. Let us apply the "Eye Salve" 
and we shall behold it in its beauty. It is being built up by the 
sorrows of the Black man's Ancestors, who have long died in the 
land of slavery, and cried out in the days of their pangs and 
agonizing anguish — "How long, Oh Lord!" And by the memory 
of cruel injustices, stigmas and discriminations, l;>Tichings and 
burnings at the stake, the African race have suffered, endured, and 
borne, and are bearing all over the world with Christian fortitude 
and resigTiation. Read this news of lawlessness and inhumanity : — 
"Negro boy — Jesse Washington, was burned to death:" — Reported 
15th of May, 1916, from "Waco, Texas;" by, "The Washington 
Evening Star." "15,000 persons were witnesses" (it is alleged 
present at the scene) "including children and women." This is 
certainly a pretty how-dye-do ! Although, many similar outrages 
have occurred in the United States subsequently to the delivery of 
this speech, two months ago ; this particular case of lawless brutality 
is harrowingly painful and disgusting to one's Christian fellings. 
Yes brethren, the Kingdom is being built up, by the (to us) useless 
lives of human direlect — a condition of things which did not grow 
spontaneously, but nurtured from the effect arising out of the cause 
of "man's inhumanity to man:" — that sanguinary bloodhound of 
the ages, that notorious mother of all that can be named vice and 
sin— whose environment has become so materialistically sordid that 
therein everything spiritual is treated with malignant scorn and 
supercilious contempt. Yes, the Kingdom is being built up by the- 
"Suffragette" — the credulous woman, who has now learned m- 
these latter days — after years of hard toil in pain and of sorrows' 
(through bitter experiences) of man's jingoistic egotisims, that it 
is infinitely "better to trust in the Lord, than to put confidence in. 
man or even in Princes. ' ' The Kingdom is being built up by the' 
saddened end of the hardened criminal, and, by the villain whose ^ 
heart we were most sanguine could not be touched even with pity;^ 



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when we sat in the judgment seat over him. By the sigh of the 
weary it is being built; and by the craving of the hungry — the 
poorest of the most poverty stricken, just for a morsel of bread, 
and somewhere to lay his head. Ala^ ! Remember what the Lord 
Jesus Himself said: — ''The foxes have holes, the birds have nests, 
but the Son of man has not anywhere to lay His head. ' ' The blind, 
the lame, the halt, the murderer, the blasphemer — brethren, these 
all (in contrasts) are, the unfortunate products of human society: 
they are what society has manufactured them to be! They have 
all come out of the human family as we have come. And I tell 
you too, what is more, all have their moments and place in the 
Economy of God's Universe. They may be required to play 
their part in the construction work of "judgment and discrimina- 
tion" — the indispensable instrumentalities for the building up of 
that Ethical Superstructure — that Church, which will be in contra- 
distinction to others ; for in it there will neither rich men, nor poor 
men, there will not be a ''hyphenated white church," nor a 
' ' hyphenated Negro Church, ' ' but one church in the Lord. For as 
surely as God was able (as I have remarked) to build a Kingdom 
from the debris or refuse of "pieces of burnt timber and broken 
bricks, taken out of a burned city," so surely is He able to build 
His Kingdom out of the pains, and tears and regrets, and dis- 
appointments of these His apparently poor, unfortunate children. 
Por in the Divine Economy or arrangement of things I should 
like to know who amongst us is wise enough to say this or that 
;Something is lost? If he do, tell him to reconcile his affirmation 
Tvdth these words of Holy Writ — "A sparrow shall not fall to the 
.groimd without your father. "...." But the very hairs of your head 
.are numbered." 

A Notable Incident of a Summer's Walk in 
the City of London, England 

During the summer of the year 1913 — a friend and I were walk- 
ing along a newly constructed Thoroughfare, known as ' ' the Kings- 
way" in the fashionable "West End Quarter" of Aristocratic 
1/ondon; from which city I had been absent four years (having 
/been engaged in surveying and Missionary work in Africa) during 
that period. And as we passed along chatting about the gaiety 
of the quarter and of the splendidly constructed Broadway — My 
iriend pointing his finger said to me, "Look you there. Dr. Barnes, 
do you see those pretty flowers, how beautifully handsome they are 
springing up and blossoming? The seeds of them were planted 
in this Island by the Romans during the time of their occupation. ' ' 
By expressing my admiration to my friend for the pretty flowers 
and their odoriferousness, I ironically asked this esteemed English 
Nobleman, "How long ago was that?" He replied — "Almost as 
early as at the date of the planting of Christianity here. We 
;are told so, ' ' said he, ' ' by tradition. ' ' 

Now these flowers had not had the privilege of seeing God 's sun- 



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shine for many, many, hundreds of years, so that the seeds which 
produced them, were accounted as lost until then: the old build- 
ings which encumbered the ground and by which they were en- 
shrouded and obscured having become demolished and cleared 
away, the purer atmosphere with rain from heaven began to pen- 
etrate upon them, which, at once influenced their growth, beauty, 
and expansion; and imparted (so to speak) blessings on the flowers. 
It gave them the chance they long needed ; and having thus got it, 
they commenced to bask in the generous and exhilirating sunshine 
of God's favor, from which they received refreshing health, en- 
couragements, and vigorous vitality. So too, with the human 
family, dear friends; there will never be a permanently robust, 
strong, spiritual intellectuality in us as a whole, to guide our men- 
talities evenly along the paths of heavenly rectitude. No ; not upon 
the old line, not after the old order of things. Experience has 
proved that after this similitude we can not attain this ideal. It 
is of the Earth earthy (Ge Choikos) . The leaders of the world have 
gone wrong. This has been unmistakably proved, to a demonstra- 
tion. Those who are thought to be the strongest among men, 
morally, are jiLst now e^dncing to mankind that they are numbered 
amongst the weakest, and the vilest, and stand in need of unctuous 
commiseration and charity. No ; not until the old Avail — that bul- 
wark of partition — sin's redoubtable stronghold has been battered 
down, demolished, and cast away to perdition. And all our 
lies and hypocricies, envies, hatreds, jealousies and abomniable 
evil designs against one another; and all our lying, subtle, philo- 
sophical diplomacies of statecraft, church, and of whatever kind — 
the arch unclean demons, that have deceived the whole habitable, 
be ejected from the midst of the human family, and sent down to 
perdition ; and be chained in that condemned cell forever. It will 
certainly require much time for its accomplishment. Truly so, but 
the good work is progressing favorably. 

And so our dear friends, we have a 'glimpse' of the character 
or kind of work ahead of us to be grappled with in the "New Age." 
We shall have to learn our principal task, or lesson, in "This New 
Epoch;" and, that lesson, vdll be — "How to live aright." We 
shall have to surrender all our ' ' mammons, ' ' and all our ' ' Jujus, ' ' 
whatever they may be. We must first build an altar upon which to 
offer up 'living sacrifices' of selves, and learn too, how to do the 
commandment — "Little children love ye one another." The non 
performance, or non observance, of this precept, has been the fail- 
ure of the past ; but the practical confirmation of it will have now 
to be exacted. To believers in God — Jesus is "the way, the truth 
and the life." 

''Armageddon"— Judgment on Earth 

We are in the midst of a great Krisis — a Krisis or Judgment, 
that undoubtedly spells — " Arma-ged-don." This European — Asi- 
atic — Judgment is ; dealing out its avalanche of thunder and light- 



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nings, hailstones — brimstone, and fire, of the direst consequences 
upon the nations. It is a cataclysm that causes them to be gnawing 
their tongues for their pains, and torments. It has come in accord- 
ance with promises made of old; but the people do not appear to 
comprehend the meaning thereof; hence, the clamors of their 
tongues, are ringing in the air with the wildest speculations — as to 
how long this scourage of terrorising death is calculated to last? 
''Behold," saith the Spirit of God, ''I come as a thief in the night." 
The 'New Era,' has approached; (Armageddon is its harbinger so 
to speak). It is only separated from the Old World by the Red. 
Sea of the Gentiles — that sanguinary deluge of human gore which 
is being poured out as the sacrifice for the remission of the cumula- 
tive sins — abominations and lawlessness inherited, of the Gentiles; 
or more properly, from the ' ' Goyim, ' ' who have been governing the 
world wrongly in the name of Christ for a Dispensation or an Epoch 
of time. God is now manifesting them in the hour of judgment, 
that they "might be led to see that their image or likeness is not 
that of the Christ but rather than after the similitude of the beast." 
As the Ecclesiastical Preacher of Israel in his eloquent sermon on 
a brutish man's biological standing once observed: (Eccl. 3:17-21) 
' ' I said in mine heart God shall judge the righteous and the wicked, 
for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work." 
"I said in my heart concerning the estate of the sons of men that 
God might manifest them and that they might see that they them- 
selves are beasts." (Eccl. 3:17-18.) This manifestation that is 
transpiring in Europe is an undoubted occular demonstration of 
God's wrathful indignation kindled against "the powers that be" 
on account of the brutish spirit of might against right which these 
violent men have despotically exercised against the weak throughout 
the age. And so God is thereby giving to them the just recompense, 
and also making the evident exposures of all their fraudently in- 
sincere pious utterances, of peace and good will which they have so 
loudly proclaimed for one another all the while — making manifest, 
that these devices were nothing other than "unclean, froglike, 
spirits" — political chicaneries, hypocritical subterfuges of lying 
wonders, and mysterious iniquities. 

The Political: ''He That Ruleth Over Men Must be Just'* 

' ' The Divine rights of Kings ' ' after the old style : This idea has 
waxed old and has begun decrepitude for good. It is a notable 
sign of the times. For although the principle has been so passion- 
ately asserted from medieval days — away back to the time of 
Dynastic Babylon, with all its jingoistic conceptions of autocratic 
impietisms the precept is to-day dying a slow and painful death on 
account of its inherent antiquatedness. 

Those Royal autocratic heirs over the other side of the Atlantic 
(Europe) whose cherished prerogative it is by virtue of the in- 
heritance to which they claim that they are entitled, and are cling- 



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ing to so tenaciously with the obstinacy of a feudal conservatism — 
these Royal gentlemen, are all well aware as any ordinarv- persons 
do to-day that a great inovation has already taken place in the 
domain by the common people under the inspiration of the demo- 
cratic spirit of the age. Democracy — Government by the people 
for the people is the star angel or messenger of our day. It is to 
all intents and purposes the "Michael" that is destined to remove 
Cain — that murderous son of man, who. has been killing his weaker 
brother (Abel) from the days of old up to the present, and to 
rest from him that "flaming sword" (armament), snatch it from 
his sinful hand, and take and place him where he shall never have 
access to that life taking weapon any more. It is this self same 
"Star Angel" or Messenger of God, that will lop down the world's 
superfluities, and rugged inequalities (brought about by the deluge 
of rapacious licentiousness, predatory commercialism, and inor- 
dinate greed for gold, which have cursed the human family for 
ages). Fill up the declivities, span and bridge the rivers, tunnell 
the mountains, and make the way for the train of uniformity to 
pass over and bring about the needed concurrence amongst human- 
ity. Democracy will transform the political chaos, and muddling 
confusion arising out of "the Armageddon" into a new order, 
wherein shall be established stability, tranquility, eciuality — true 
freedom, liberty, and absolute justice — these enumerated blessings 
for which we have groaned and yearned, and are groaning and 
yearning for to-day, shall be. the dominant features of normal life. 
It (democracy) will solve the problem of uniting public authority 
with individual freedom — by granting even-handed opportunities 
to all peoples by the just principle of open competition irrespective 
of whatever color, caste, or creed. 

The axe man is now standing by cutting dovTi those national 
trees which have not brought forth good fruits so that they shall no 
longer encumber the ground, and to cast them pall mall into the 
unciuenchable fire of hell. 

This is the work mapped out for the preliminary attainment 
of Good Life in the Xew Age as set forth symbolically in the Book 
of the Apocalypse. 

Those who labor to-day under the hallucinatory inspiration of 
the Di^dne Rights of Kings, according to the style of the old regime ; 
of magnets, autocrats, plutocrats,. oligarchs, demogogues, and hosts, 
can have no appreciative conception whatever, of the sign of the 
times in which they live. We have the clearest vision supported by 
unmistakable evidences that the Power of Democracy is making 
itself felt for good in the world just now, as never before known. 

This Power has already effected, and is also effecting political 
changes and bringing about modifications and transformations in 
the Kingdoms of men, within the last decade or two. that are 
almost incredible to conceive. We have seen Republics evolved out 
of autocratic chaos and Babylonian confusion. We saw a "Duma" 
or a Russina Parliament, constitutionally inaugurated in that auto- 



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cratic country, with elected representative members from among 
the people — superceding an autocratic bureaucracy, which, had been 
the democlean sword held over the heads of millions of people as 
the governing authority for ages, the majority of which people were, 
equally as fitted to perform the functions of citizens as those of 
other countries who have been enjoying the blessings of full meas- 
ures of democratic institutions from remote times. 

Lastly: We have seen (and not without some astonishment) the 
phenominal coup de maitre — ^that gigantic stroke of democratic 
policy accomplished upon the 'Guilded Chamber' or House of Lords 
of Great Britain — The nation, whose political creed has always been 
Democracy and which has been so conspicuously liberal in its 
policies. It has been alleged, and truly so, that latterly that 
' Upper House ' got out of touch with the spirit of democracy — Rule 
by the will of the people of the Realm of Great Britain! This 
autocratic Assembly or ' ' Guilded Chamber ' ' — hereditarily self con- 
stituted, made it a definite policy to over-rule the Popular Chamber 
— 'The House of Commons,' by the exercise over that body of an 
unwarrantably unprecendented vetoing power over all bills that 
were sent up there, from the Commons; especially, when a liberal 
government happens to be in power. 

Latterly, judgment overtook that autocratic assembly. Just 20 
years to date, according to a prophecy foretold by Mr. Asquith (the 
present Prime Minister) in the year 1892; when debating in the 
House of Commons the last Gladstonian ''Home Rule Bill" for 
Ireland. On the occasion when the celebrated Mr. Joseph Cham- 
berlain attempted to carry a hostile vote of "no confidence," 
against the Liberal Government in favor of the so-called "Liberal 
Unionist Party" which he championed. Mr. Chamberlain com- 
pared the Liberal Government then with the Melbourne's Govern- 
ment of 1840, and dubbed it "a discredited government." Asquith 
replied that the Liberal Party could make a tolerably certain fore- 
cast from Chamberlain's datum as to the time of the downfall of the 
House of Lords ; and, that would be twenty years from that time. 
I do not know whether the politicians of London under the foggy 
atmosphere of the place are able to remember the incident, but the 
prophecy was fulfilled to the letter. The people of the United 
Kingdom took the matter into their hands under the gallant leader- 
ship of Premier Asquith himself, and clipped the claws of that 
"Guilded House," and took away its power for destroying the 
people's bills once forever more: — ^A. D. 1912. 

So now, dear brethren and friends, I believe the case I have been 
endeavoring to make out on the line of the argument advanced in 
accordance with the idea embodied in the subject (which I believe 
to be a consistent interpretation thereof) has been clearly estab- 
lished. And it is only now left for me to give a synthetic sum- 
ming up. Democracy, according to the lexical meaning of the 
word, and the usage to which I have applied it as a symbol in the 
exposition of the subject — this word (Democracy) in Principle 



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will personify the Prime Minister,, or, ''Star Angel," in the com- 
bination of agencies comprising "the New Constitution" of 
' ' Church and State, ' ' under the whole Heaven ; through the energy 
of which, the establishment of ''Peace and Goodwill" — A bene- 
volent reciprocity (dependent and inter-dependent) between all 
mankind will be accomplished in the "New Age" upon which we 
have entered. 

The incidental happenings will define the epochal time, or 
Terminal, iniatiating the event when the 'New Era,' dawned upon 
the world as a " thief in the night. ' ' 

The enforcement of strict and impartial justice to all men — peo- 
ples, nations kindreds and tongues, without the taint of prejudice 
or discrimination (that crooked business that has been one of the 
greatest curses of past "dark ages") will tantamount to the say- 
ing — "All tears are wiped away." Concurrently and coincident- 
ally, with this development, will be the heralding of the Apocalyptic 
benediction, the sound of which shall be heard to say — "Behold I 
make all things new." White men. Black men, and all men of 
whatever shade or complexion will commingle their voices and sing 
internationally as one man, without the thought of color or the 
predilection of anything calculated to suit one's particular dis- 
position. 

And the same shall contsitute that "Voice from the Throne out 
of Heaven" (orderly arrangement of things established on Earth) 
saying : " It is done ! ' ' Consummation ! Glory to the Diety in the 
Highest. Let Heaven and Earth adore Him: — High and Low — 
Rulers and Ruled. For mercy and justice have combined, and 
Righteousness and Peace have embraced and Kissed each other. 
Adore Him that sitteth upon His Throne. Glory, Glory, Allelujah ! 

Liberia, the Black Republic 

"The land or country of a people coming out of another land of 
grinding oppression." Now my brethren, I am taking advantage 
of this opportunity offered to speak to you finally in a familiar and 
in a friendly spirit. We are all of the African race, never mind the 
different complexional castes which our people possess. Ne frenti 
crede: Nimdum ne crede colori. Some of us are dark, others light, 
and so on; but, these different tinges should have no real bearing 
upon the case with which we have to do that is calculated to enhance 
our well being. Seeing then from the foregoing that we have such 
a cloud of indications, or signs in the political Heavens and Earth 
today, that the Old World order of things, has waxed old, and is 
being rolled away as a " scroll ' ' — while thanks be to the Providence 
of Almighty God, the "New Age" or world has approached, with the 
omen of a good promise of good to the down-trodden, to which 
class of unfortunate beings we, likewise, the Jews are belonging as 
ancient celebrated races: Let me entreat you eagerly in the name 
of our Heavenly Father to give some attention to the work of the 



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uplifting of our race. I am speaking to you in a very particular 
sense. I exhort you to let us commence doing something tangible 
(as God's Ministers and Leaders of our people) for ourselves in 
the work of race building up. We must know from experience that 
no other people will undertake to interest themselves altruistically 
sincere in our behalf to do this needful work for us. Those who 
had made pious promises and sacred pledges that they intended to 
make us a nation have all looked back latterly — they have all 
broken their promises simply because we are of the African race. 
We must therefore depend upon God, and work like thinking men 
to accomplish our own salvation. We have now a splendid chance 
and opportunity to commence with concerted unanimity the work 
of raising up ourselves nationally. We must commence to think of 
a National ]\Iind, a National Spirit, and a National Conscience. 
These sentimental factors must be conceived and allowed to grow 
deep down into the depths of our souls. We must know that out- 
side of Africa — our Ancestral Continental Home — that great Conti- 
nent that belongs to us by virtue of the law of prescriptive right ; 
we are like the Jews are out of Palestine — not a nation. The Jews 
have done splendid colonizing work silently during the last 40 
years, to make themselves a nation again in Palestine. We are so- 
journers, strangers, aliens and foreigners, scorned and disdained 
human kinds in other peoples' countries, wherein our race has been 
scattered through the misfortune of national sin on the part of our 
ancestors. We are bound to recognize this fact if we have any 
quickening spirit within us. 

Thanks to the Providence of God — The Republic of Liberia, on 
our Ancestral Continental Home, is being preserved for the Black 
or Colored Race : — The work of a handful of good white men from 
this (United States of America) who have helped the race to ac- 
quire it. It was an act of goodness on the part of these philan- 
thropic White men, which will never, never, be forgotten by the 
thinkers of our race. The Constitution of Liberia by which the 
powers of the world have recognized the independence of the little 
state, has, got this sacred stipulation in so many words, viz: — 
''The State is intended for the Colored Race" — men, of African 
Extraction: which is meant by implication, that it is intended for 
no other. 

The country has illimitable, undeveloped resources, which are 
latent and are kept conserved for our race to make the best uses of 
nationally in time. The population is only a little over two mil- 
lions at the present time, but, it is large and rich enough from its 
undeveloped wealth in the ground, and wild products on the sur- 
face, and extent of land, to sustain a population of from ten to 
fifteen millions of souls. So my brethren, let us not fail to take 
notice of this Heavenly- Sign, by which the possibility for our con- 
quering is revealed to us in a way psychologically, that no dream 
could picture. Let us at once respond by taking hold of the out- 
stretched hand of God, offering to us National Salvation — as Afri- 
can Ethiopian peoples. The rulers of the little Republic — those 



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who are conducting the government of the country, at the present 
time, are chosen guardians from among our brethren — into whose 
hands the safe keeping of the state is entrusted for the whole f amilj^ 
or race. 

Our aboriginal brethren (the ancient people) numbering two 
millions or more inhabiting the Hinterland of the country need to 
be educated industrially : — To be taught the art of handicraft, etc. 

Value of Industrial Education 

As I have said, these native people must be trained in industrial 
pursuits; so that they may be fitted to serve intelligently in the 
development work to be undertaken for the building up of the 
country in the exploitation and development of its numerous re- 
sources, viz : — Agricultural, mineral, timbers, and the thousand and 
one other products of the country. — The manufacturing of large 
quantities of Palm Oils from the butter and kernels properly well 
purified in the country, so that the proper prices can be got for 
them as similar businesses are being conducted elsewhere. To look 
after roadmaking and railway constructions, to facilitate transpor- 
tation from the interior of the countrv" to the coast. And instead 
of making our native brethren the pack horses, we should take and 
establish there motor trucks and teach them how to run these con- 
veyances for carting these products to port for shipping. Look after 
the construction of waterworks, — dams and canals, to conduct boat- 
ing transportation, etc., etc. Rear stock — Sheep, cows, goats, horses, 
etc., cultivate coffee and cocoa farms, plant sugar cane, and manu- 
facture sugar under the system of centralization factories through 
the country. Grow larger crops of maize, and rice, and cotton. No 
other countrj^ in the world is more adapted for the culture of these 
marketable products. It is well kno^Mi that many if not all of these 
tropical products are indigenous to the soil. The economic value of 
our native brethren in relation to the development of the divers re- 
sources of the country, is fully recognized all over the Continent 
(My book on that subject is considered an independent and im- 
partial authority) but, unfortunately, in our Republic our native 
aboriginal people have, not had any training or education, con- 
sequently; they can not perform the development work to profit, 
at the present time. Neither should it be expected of them; but 
they are docile and apt. And at times (I am pained to state) they 
are brutally illtreated by some of those placed in authority over 
them. Their not understanding what they are wanted to do by 
others who want them to do things that they are not taught to do. 
Nevertheless, they are ready and are yearning to be taught. Sym- 
pathetic help must be rendered to improve the situation. There are 
no kinder and more obedient and loving folk to be found in any part 
of Africa than our millions of aborigines in the Hinterland of 
Liberia. I vouch for the sincerity of my utterance for I have lived 
in their midst for months, and years too. These people must be 



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educated so that their usefiihiess may be utilized for building- and 
opening up the country to fame and greatness. * * * 

'*Blood is Thicker Than Water** 

The Government of the United States of America and its Citizens 
should help Liberia ! They should remember the saying — ' ' Blood 
is thicker than water ! ' ' They should bear in mind that under nor- 
mal conditions of things any "mother" who "forgets her suckling- 
child" makes herself odiously amenable to the reproaches and cen- 
sures of the peoples of the civilized communities. The United 
States Government should take active interests in Liberia and its 
people 's welfare by protecting the country so that it may inviolably 
retain its territory which it has ligitimately acquired. The Ameri- 
can Minister sent to the Republic should be a man of high capacity. 
He should not be a mere ceremonial diplomatic doyen. The occu- 
pation of this position is most agreeable ; and that is all. 

Ex-President Roosevelt (during his administration) by dispatch- 
ing Admiral Shadwick with his splendid Mediterranean Squadron 
of eight cruisers to Monrovia in the summer of 1905 did not only 
show America's friendly consideration and good will at a critical^ 
psychological moment for the people of the little Black Republic, 
but, saved it from the grip of a powerful neighbor, who, had a 
covetous eye on the territory of the little State ; and who had been 
carving it up as if it were a sort of proverbial carving joint intend- 
ed for a hungry landgrabbing connoisseur. The gallant Admiral 
on his arrival at the Port of Monrovia, and let down anchor, fired 
from his flagship — The Armored Cruiser Brooklyn, an unusually 
heavy salvo, and thereby gave notice to the world, that the United 
States of America considers Liberia a daughter nation of the great 
Republic, and that she did not intend looking on with passivity or 
complacency at any power attempting to infringe on its territorial 
rights or tolerate any meddling interference with its independence. 

That act had greatly buoyed up the little nation and enhanced its 
love for America. Even the native Chiefs (feudal Kings) of the 
Country, who, came to the capital on the occasion to pay their re- 
spects to the Head of the State and talk "Plava" with their Pres- 
ident on hearing the thunderings of the great guns of the ships be- 
came affrighted, by thinking the same to have been the prelude for 
the opening of the hostility expected against the Republic : and 
began running away into the woods to hide themselves from an 
anticipated destruction. Now when these Chiefs were told that 
the demonstration was being made by the great American nation's 
fleet in favor of the preservation of Liberia's territory, the men 
became happy and consoled; and asked for "a blessing" for the 
"great American President and the people" from God. 

How is it that latterly all this noble spirit of such splendid mag- 
nanimity — benevolence, and charity, has died away ? What has 
Liberia done to make matters so ? Just about five years subsequent- 



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ly to this noteworthy incident (1910-1911) Liberia sought the good 
graces of the United States' Government, to obtain a small loan, 
to relieve itself from the pressure of its external and internal 
indebtedness which caused the nation most serious anxiety: well 
(after a tardy negotiation) she got the loan; but, the condition 
under which it was procured completely nullified the purpose of 
its financial usefulness to the little State. 

However, there is one most pleasing feature arising out of this 
Amerieo-Liberian loan business which, must not be discounted; 
for, apart from the dear monetary international bargaining — the 
sine qua non; whereby, the money was obtained and for which 
she has yielded her entire custom's duty as security for many 
years: the selection of the "Official Receiver" made and sent there 
by the United States to conduct the management of the business 
is proved to be most thoughtful. He is the right man in the right 
place. He is a master hand in conducting the straightening out 
of financial entanglements. 

He has been engaged in teaching my people the rudiments of 
State craft or elementary manner how financial concerns can be 
conducted efficiently. 

He has already established a "gold" system, as the monetary 
standard for the Country. None but a great financial genius of 
extraordinary ability could have transformed Liberia's fixuancial 
muddle (the condition in which the State has been living and try- 
ing to keep pace chequeredly with, time from its foundation) and 
placed its finance upon a sound working basis for so brief a space 
of time. Mr. Page Clarke — a gentleman with whom I am not 
personally acquainted, but heard of (as I had just left the Country 
when he came there) to my mind deserves the highest praise, re- 
spect, and thanks from the people of Liberia and from all who 
have the interests of the Country at heart for the good work he 
has performed in the Republic. 

The prospects for American capitalists if they could be induced 
to go to Liberia and invest their moneys in the developments of 
the divers resources of the country and take an active part in the 
opening up of trade there, are most pleasing. My people are ready 
to grant concessions to American capitalists on most favored 
terms ; but some how it is strange that these capitalists are not 
giving the important matter any serious consideration. It is to 
be hoped they will begin to interest themselves in Liberia ; for an 
American is not only persona grata there, but he will receive 
special favored considerations in the way of inducements from the 
Government and people. I am positive that when this piece of good 
work is accomplished — the education of the natives and opening up 
of trade and development activities : — the same will justify the say- 
ing in the fulfillment of the words of the prophet — "Ethiopia 
stretches forth her hand to the Lord:" For the obvious purpose of 
taking hold of His Hand to be lifted up nationally ; for the extension 
of anastasis to the whole of the Black or Colored Race that was once- 



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the most reno^Tied amongst the families of the world; but, has 
been brought to the bottom of the pit on account of national vicis- 
situdes, from whence it is striving to be uplifted. 

This is the condition of things I have sadly to relate to you, 
as my message from the Republic of Liberia as your brother min- 
ister and servant of God. In delivering this message I feel that I 
must take occasion to appeal for your cooperation and help. Mean- 
while, you will permit me to congratulate you heartily for the 
work of your hands which you have built up to be seen everywhere 
in this country since you have had the opportunity to labor for 
yourselves. For although you have had many cruel disparage- 
ments with which to contend (which are well known) nevertheless, 
brethren, you have to your credit acquitted yourselves as worthy 
men. Your handiwork bears testimony to the fact. And with the 
limited and to a great degree circumscribed amount of opportuni- 
ties which you are afforded you have in your spiritual endeavors 
faithfully contributed your proper share locally, in the building up 
of that ^'Wall of the City which has twelve Foundations, and on 
them, the twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb." 

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